Romney's name will forever be associated with the success from failure of the Salt Lake Olympics. Therefore any mention of the Olympics must never allow any reference to Salt Lake. It's as if it never happened.

Yeah, they completely ignored his unsourced and untrue story that Condi was at the top of the VP list.

You mean the MSM went full in on the Drudge/Romney Condi Rice headfake? What's bizarre is nobody cares that the scoop wasn't even true. It was made up. And they will bite on the next bullshit story from Drudge as this one never happened.

The couple has previously come under fire for Russell Mark’s claims that sleeping pills help him sleep, as well as for Lauren Mark’s provocative photo shoot showing her in a bikini on the cover of a magazine.

Oh these straight perverts drive me crazy. Showing your legs in a magazine. Whore! You and your drug-using husband need to go back to your cave. Hello! It's the UK. And the 21st century.

Also, Rice was kicked around as a potential VP for McCain. It's really not that crazy a thought that a successful Republican appointee, who by the way, brings excellent credentials to the table, could be the VP. I doubt it is true, but kicking Drudge for media speculation seems kind of silly, when that is the primary means of the media making news most days.

but kicking Drudge for media speculation seems kind of silly, when that is the primary means of the media making news most days.

I wasn't kicking Drudge, I was kicking Althouse for pretending the MSM ignores Drudge.

And while Condi would make an interesting choice for VP, repeating Drudge's story and using it as a springboard for speculation was ridiculous because it was completely unsourced and Drudge is known to have a bias and his site is practically an arm of the Romney campaign.

Freder Frederson said...By the way, don't these London Olympics chaos stories help Romney, the man who saved the Salt Lake City Olympics?

Um . . .No!

You are really grasping at straws. What does the London Olympics have to do with the Salt Lake City Olympics?================Freder always brings the dumb, when he isn't putting the legal 'rights' of Muslim terrorist killers over the lives of US citizens.

Obviously, AA is referring to the serious planning, security, logistics troubles emerging about the upcoming Olympics - how the Brit heads of the Olympic effort have seriously mismanaged the effort. Which have very good odds if they are a bungled muck-up...to reflect in American minds all summer with how well China did in Beijing, and how well Romney saving and making the Salt Lake City Games a stellar moment. A weeks long, inevitable contrast to the British stab at managing and leading a complex endeavor these days.

As for Romney's pick for VP, the one absolute certainty is whoever it is, that person won't be as dumb as Slow Joe Biden. Or as cheap as Biden.

Then there is Zero's comment about no one building a business on their own blah, blah, blah. Right because todays business creators are using tools paid for by previous business creators and their employee's taxes which came from salaries created by those business creators. Once again the democrats by their own mouths declare themselves the party of losers and moochers.

Romney ought to release his tax records as soon as (in no particular order) J Effin Kerry releases his (honorableable discharge papers,Zero his college transcripts, his renunciation of dual or triple citizenships and who actually paid for his education along with such luminaries as Wasserman-Schultz releasing her tax returns and foreign investments and same for J Effing Kerry, Boxer and other notable democrat-socialists like B & H Clinton.

And speaking of outsourcing and off shoring why isfundraiseraising in Europe? And why did he sell Chrysler to Fiat?

Wait. If he's an arm of the Romney campaign, isn't it more likely he'll have inside information? Shouldn't we be LESS suspicious of people with inside information? Or, is this Romney pulling a double secret trick on the world by duping his own arm? Truly, the left arm does not know what the Drudge arm is doing.

A weeks long, inevitable contrast to the British stab at managing and leading a complex endeavor these days.

Which might be relevant if Romney were running for office in the U.K., but he's not. He is running in the U.S.A., how the British mismanage the London Olympics is completely irrelevant to the campaign in this country.

'A weeks long, inevitable contrast to the British stab at managing and leading a complex endeavor these days.'

And maybe Althouse, Drudge, other commentors will see spillover into other comparisons...

While the Brits seemed to have bungled it, their leaders Olympics are less of a bungle than Obama's many mistakes on the US economy...Korean visitors said.

Yes, London is in gridlock, the rain is every other day.....but at least these Olympics were not held in Chicago...where there would be piles of dead bodies and the whole bloody Chicago Olympic Committee under indictment.

Ah, look, there is Michelle and Sash and Malia with some of the Royals and billionaires at the Opening Ceremony. Was that a old fawning Royal that just kissed her hand, or an aged rock star?

Brit tabs report that Obama, a week into the Olympics, has offered the Brits help with security and logistics...he did not like the response...send us Romney instead if he can come!

Ah. So, he is clearly an arm of the Romney campaign being used to spread disinformation, because he linked to a story that Condi Rice -- who has been routinely mentioned as a possible VP candidate for... nearly 6 or 7 years -- was being potentially considered for the VP slot.

What a crafty ruse! So good you were able to see through his disinformation campaign to realize that he also may NOT choose someone who he may choose. Truly, you have seen through this vile, tricky -- nay, almost Rovian -- ploy.

Remember how Obama personally tried to get the Olympics to be held in Chicago?

Garage mahal - And the "patriotic" right cheered when the U.S. was denied. Seems love of their country comes with many preconditions. Oh well.

I think it was more relief than cheering. Besides the fact that Rio is way cooler....Chicago promised to be a serious embarassment. A near-bankrupt city in a near-bankrupt State. A city legendary for Democrat corruption, kickbacks, dead voters. When the hearings happened, black thugs were running the streets beating people to death with 2X4s...everyone in Chicago leadership was under some form of criminal investigation, Blogo and a host of black Congressmen and state senators discussed regarding the ongiong scandal of selling off Obama's Senate Seat.

It wasn't cheering Chicago didn't get the Olympics...It was a sigh of relief.America had already had some huge blows to our reputation.Why bring Chicago in, and make it even worse?

"Cheers erupt at Weekly Standard world headquarters," wrote editor John McCormack in a post titled "Chicago Loses! Chicago Loses!"

"Please, please let me break this news to you. It's so sweet," said Glenn Beck on his radio show.

The Drudge Report announced the news like so: "WORLD REJECTS OBAMA: CHICAGO OUT IN FIRST ROUND. THE EGO HAS LANDED."

"For those of you ... who are upset that I sound gleeful, I am. I don't deny it. I'm happy," Limbaugh said. "Anything that gets in the way of Barack Obama accomplishing his domestic agenda is fine with me."

"Hahahahaha," wrote Red State's Erick Erickson. "So Obama's pimped us to every two bit thug and dictator in the world, made promises to half the Olympic committee, and they did not even kiss him. So much for improving America's standing in the world, Barry O."

Freder: If you're unaware that Rice has been kicked around as a potential VP (heck, some people speculated about her for McCain!), then it is your own fault for just not knowing enough about the right. Speculation about Rice is... blase. Calling her a front runner is sensationalistic, but suggesting she's in the running is... realistic.

I laughed when Obama lost his bid for a Chicago Olympics. It was funny. I laughed when Weiner posted pictures of his penis. It was funny. I laughed when George Bush tried to go out the wrong door. It was funny. It' funny when a person who isn't supposed to make mistakes makes a mistake. It's even funnier when partisans get all huffy about it.

The Chicago Olympics story is interesting in that it shows how Obama thinks he is all powerful and can reverse a decision that is already made. Chicago had no chance. The fact that he made a fool of himself was the source of the snickering.

Some of you will think this is a stretch but I think this is the start of BushCo's attempt to sell Rice as the next VP as a way of cementing her bid on the 2008 presidential election. Bush gained some respect having the first black female Secretary of State and with Cheney facing so much heat, offsetting it with the first female (and black to boot) VP would wag a lot of dogs.

...Obviously, AA is referring to the serious planning, security, logistics troubles emerging about the upcoming Olympics - how the Brit heads of the Olympic effort have seriously mismanaged the effort. Which have very good odds if they are a bungled muck-up...

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Before you posted this I was considering what unforseen incident could occur in the remaining 3 1/2 months before the election...but would a Muslim terrorist incident help or hurt Obama?

Anyway, that Official White House blog entry possibly explains why Glenn Beck might have felt personal glee when Michelle's stories about watching the Olympics on her dad's lap didn't sway the international community.

The Weekly Standard, garage, is a small conservative magazine whose writers number twenty or so, and whose total staff I doubt breaks triple digits. It does not have a "world headquarters." Someone was trying to be funny.

garage mahal said... Remember how Obama personally tried to get the Olympics to be held in Chicago?

And the "patriotic" right cheered when the U.S. was denied. Seems love of their country comes with many preconditions. Oh well.

No. Just laughed at the overweaning hubris. I was embarassed for my country that these machine pols thought that an olympics in Chicago was a foregone conclusion.You, pathetically, actually believed chicago would get it, didn't you.